I click into the Cover Manager through the Tools Menu, and there are no albums or lists of artists; the pane is just blank, and there's no way to get anything to display.
However, I have 860 tracks, most of them tagged in albums; anyone know why they wouldn't show up in the Cover Manager?
Thank you

Lilycoco, I hadn't used the Cover Manager for awhile, and your report got me to test it out again; thanks for that. But I can't replicate your experience in 2.3.1-GIT. What version of Amarok are you using, in what distro, with what KDE version?

You might want to put your collection through a tagging application such as Picard, by the way. Amarok and most other music application will work much better with good, consistent tagging and well organized files. Picard can do both tagging and organization for you. Amarok can do so too, but it is better to use the best tool for the job.

All the best,

Valorie <--- went through that entire tagging and organization task last year

And I would ask:

- is this first use of Amarok? And if first use what format are the tracks in?
- did you just update Amarok, kde or your os?
- if not first use did it work correctly before?

I'm on Fedora 12, and I've just updated Amarok to version 2.3.1, because the Cover Manager didn't show any albums in my previous versions either!
This isn't my first use of Amarok, I've been using it for a few years now. The Cover Manager has never worked; which is surprising as I have most of my collection ID3-tagged in EasyTag, so it shouldn't be an issue with the tags.
I use Gnome, not KDE, which shouldn't be a factor (hopefully)
My music folder isn't hidden, it's in my Home folder, so I'm not sure why Amarok would have an issue in finding it for the albums.

Thanks

Wait, you mean you have the covers in id3 tags? Reading covers from tags is not yet implemented in Amarok 2.3.1, it hopefully will be in 2.3.2.
This has nothing to do with the cover manager, which is used to retrieve covers online and works perfectly fine here in Amarok 2.3.1-git.

No, I do not have the covers in id3 tags, I have tagged the songs with names, artists, albums and genres.
My problem with the Cover Manager is that none of my music shows up in it; there is the text 'Albums: 0' on the bottom left.

Hm, that is strange, it works perfectly well here, and it did so in 2.3.1 as well. I will ask a developer to check this thread.

could you try running Amarok as a different user? To test if the problem is your config

lilycoco: hm strange. When you open the cover manager, does it come up instantly? And after it shows, can you see a progress bar at the bottom? If you can provide a screenshot that would be great. Also, pastebin the debug output using something like
"amarok -d --nofork 2>&1 | tee /tmp/rok.log" would be awesome. Thanks!

The cover manager does come up instantly, I have left it open for about half an hour to check whether it is 'pending' in some way; nothing.
There isn't any sort of progress bar.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/32877174@N03/4793130099/ here is the link to a screenshot of the Cover Manager.

Debug output:

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amarok: BEGIN: CoverManager::CoverManager()
amarok: END__: CoverManager::CoverManager() - Took 0.0049s
amarok:  [ERROR!] Tried to query an uninitialized m_db!
amarok: BEGIN: void CoverManager::slotArtistQueryResult(QString, Meta::ArtistList)
amarok: END__: void CoverManager::slotArtistQueryResult(QString, Meta::ArtistList) - Took 7.8e-05s
amarok: BEGIN: void CoverManager::slotContinueConstruction()
amarok:   BEGIN: void CoverManager::changeView(CoverManager::View, bool)
amarok:   END__: void CoverManager::changeView(CoverManager::View, bool) - Took 7.9e-05s
amarok:   BEGIN: CoverView::CoverView(QWidget*, const char*, Qt::WFlags)
amarok:   END__: CoverView::CoverView(QWidget*, const char*, Qt::WFlags) - Took 0.00013s
amarok:   BEGIN: CoverView::CoverView(QWidget*, const char*, Qt::WFlags)
amarok:   END__: CoverView::CoverView(QWidget*, const char*, Qt::WFlags) - Took 0.00011s
amarok: END__: void CoverManager::slotContinueConstruction() - Took 0.019s
amarok: BEGIN: void CoverManager::init()
amarok:   BEGIN: void CoverManager::slotArtistSelected()
amarok:      [ERROR!] Tried to perform escape() on uninitialized MySQL
amarok:      [ERROR!] Tried to perform escape() on uninitialized MySQL
amarok:   END__: void CoverManager::slotArtistSelected() - Took 0.033s
amarok:    [ERROR!] Tried to query an uninitialized m_db!
amarok: END__: void CoverManager::init() - Took 0.033s
amarok: BEGIN: void CoverManager::slotAlbumQueryResult(QString, Meta::AlbumList)
amarok: END__: void CoverManager::slotAlbumQueryResult(QString, Meta::AlbumList) - Took 0.0096s
amarok: BEGIN: void CoverManager::slotArtistQueryDone()
amarok:   BEGIN: void CoverManager::changeView(CoverManager::View, bool)
amarok:   END__: void CoverManager::changeView(CoverManager::View, bool) - Took 0.00011s
amarok: END__: void CoverManager::slotArtistQueryDone() - Took 0.022s
amarok: BEGIN: void MainWindow::saveLayout()
amarok: END__: void MainWindow::saveLayout() - Took 0.023s

Thanks for the debug info. It looks like problems with the database. Could you try removing (backing up first) ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/? Then when amarok starts a full scan will kick in. Once that's done check the cover manager again and see if it still has problems.

Wow... I went into the folder 'Album Covers' then 'large' in the Amarok folder, and all the album covers were in that folder!
Certainly interesting...
@stuffcorpse, I tried what you said, and every time I tried to rescan my collection, it would stop at about 91%, with no tracks being added.
I then added tracks to the playlist by going into Media Sources and adding my Music album to the playlist; I tried the Cover Manager again, the same problem.
Sorry to be such a bother!

So you actually don't have a collection showing? What database are you using, the default embedded MySQL version or did you activate the external MySQL server? Amarok will only show covers for tracks in the collection.

Please open a konsole and try to run the amarokcollectionscanner in the parent collection folder with the option -rs. it will scan the collection folders recursively and restart automatically if it crashes.

I've been reading this thread because I am running Fedora 11 with Amarok 2.3.1 and at one point (before I switched to an external MySQL engine) I had and could update the album pictures, but now that I am using the external engine, I can never seem to get them. I get the blank/empty window with "0 albums" in the lower left corner.

I removed all the files in the ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok subdirectory and then ran the collection scanner as advised and get the only one line of output and no album pictures.

[xmas@reindeer cache]$ cd ~/Music/
[xmas@reindeer Music]$ amarokcollectionscanner -rs
</scanner>
[xmas@reindeer Music]$ cd ~/.kde/share/apps/amarok/
[xmas@reindeer amarok]$ ll
total 20
drwx------ 3 xmas xmas 4096 2011-11-11 19:27 albumcovers
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xmas xmas 0 2011-11-11 19:40 amarokcollectionscanner_batchincrementalinput.data
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xmas xmas 0 2011-11-11 19:27 dynamic.xml
-rw-rw-r-- 1 xmas xmas 308 2011-11-11 19:39 layout
drwx------ 2 xmas xmas 4096 2011-11-11 19:27 playlist_layouts
drwx------ 2 xmas xmas 4096 2011-11-11 19:27 playlists
drwx------ 2 xmas xmas 4096 2011-11-11 19:27 podcasts
[xmas@reindeer amarok]$

I've switched back to the internal MySQL server and restarted Amarok and rerun the scanner. Still no album pictures.

Addition: I restarted Amarok one more time and selected Tools -> Update Collection and I now have album pictures.

I will probably delete the tables for the external MySQL and try again.

... Mark

Sorry, but Amarok 2.3.1 is completely outdated, please upgrade to 2.4.3 which is the latest version. A lot of things have changed in the collection database handling since then.